ArticleHealth services research1997
A controlled letter intervention to change prescribing behavior: results of a dual-targeted approach.
Article in Health services research, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00268775 (Implementation Strategies Aimed at a Simple Patient-directed Intervention to Reduce Long-term Use of Benzodiazepines in Dutch Community Pharmacies), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Implementation Strategies Aimed at a Simple Patient-directed Intervention to Reduce Long-term Use of Benzodiazepines in Dutch Community Pharmacies
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- The effect of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia screening with subsequent intervention letter on the use of blood pressure and lipid lowering drugs.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2004Trial
- Comparing the Medicaid Retrospective Drug Utilization Review Program Cost-Savings Methods Used by State Agencies.American health & drug benefits · 2017Review
- Evaluating Pharmacist-Written Recommendations to Providers in a Medicare Advantage Plan: Factors Associated with Provider Acceptance.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2016Article
- Evaluation of a drug-drug interaction: fax alert intervention program.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2013Article
- Inappropriate drug use and risk of transition to nursing homes among community-dwelling older adults.Medical care · 2006Article
- Application of regression-discontinuity analysis in pharmaceutical health services research.Health services research · 2006Article
- Effect of drug utilization reviews on the quality of in-hospital prescribing: a quasi-experimental study.BMC health services research · 2006Article
- Evaluation results from prospective drug utilization review: Medicaid demonstrations.Health care financing review · 1999Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the effectiveness of a drug utilization review (DUR) letter intervention sent only to physicians, sent only to pharmacists, or sent to both physicians and pharmacists in changing physician prescribing behavior for dipyridamole. DATA SOURCES/STUDY
settingA Wisconsin Medicaid prescription drug database for data from March 1991 through May 1992 related to both long-term care and ambulatory patient settings. STUDY
designThe effects of a DUR letter intervention were tested using a field study, pre-post, nonequivalent control group, quasi-experimental design. The effects of the letter intervention in terms of dipyridamole expenditures (dollars reimbursed to pharmacies by Medicaid), expenditures for related drugs (aspirin, ticlopidine, sulfinpyrazone) and numbers of patients for whom dipyridamole was discontinued were examined across three experimental groups and a control group. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION
methodsDipyridamole expenditures for each study patient during a six-month preintervention and six-month postintervention period were collected from Medicaid prescription drug claims. Patients who had zero dipyridamole expenditures throughout the six-month postintervention period were classified as having had dipyridamole discontinued. PRINCIPAL
findingsLetters sent to both physicians and pharmacists resulted in a greater percentage of patients discontinuing dipyridamole relative to controls and statistically significant differences in postintervention dipyridamole expenditures relative to controls in both the long-term care and ambulatory patient populations.
conclusionsInterventions that focus on another person in the drug use process in addition to the physician may have greater effects on a change in the prescribing of a targeted drug than letters to physicians alone.
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